The enemy is us

With all due respect, I am responding to David Hamer’s letter of June 23 (“Angry citizens have questions”).

I do not know what is going on here, but he is not that naive.

There is no exclusive focus on resolving the national debt because the exclusive people are not that interested. The national debt is truly a major problem. But the larger problem is why do the American people allow the super-funded, K Street politicians the avenue to bring down our local, national and international economies. Figure that one out and you will resolve the national debt and many other problems. Somewhere in the equation you will find the factors of self-serving greed, naked avarice and the betrayal of duty and honesty.

Ownership to our financial catastrophe belongs to the Democrats, the Republicans, the apathetic, the lazy, the zealots and the stingy.

This country operates on the golden rule: “Those that have the gold make the rules” – and for them justice means “just us.”

We are all part of the problem, David, including you and me.

Rich Magney

Spokane